Willowmavin · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Willowmavin

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Zero homes without a car is the defining feature of Willowmavin, where every single household relies on private vehicles. This total dependence on cars reflects a rural setting with no local public transport and a typical hour-long drive to the city.

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📍 Willowmavin, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least two vehicles, with 35.1% owning two and 14.9% owning four or more. This means the percentage of homes without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.8%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Willowmavin, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 3 vehicles (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 26% of residents doing so—a figure well above the Australian average. For those who do travel, 54.2% drive themselves to work, while no one uses public transport.

26.0% ▲ +193.8%

Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.8%
  • 2016: 12.1%
  • 2021: 26.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.

How people get to work

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In Willowmavin, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 32%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves the local access far below the Victorian average of 4.4 stops per 1,000 people.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time to the city is 63 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

63

Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
  • Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Willowmavin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22795/willowmavin/topic/transport